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The works of Val Gardena artist Hugo Vallazza (1955-1997, Ortisei), created between 1976 and 1995, stand out for their independence and radicalism. The artist, who was rarely inclined to present his work to the public during his lifetime, chose to allow his paintings to exist beyond the public’s perception requirements, giving them a timeless dimension. The reduction and concentration on the simple and elementary of his ‘form found, to be found”, as Vallazza calls it in his writings, does not symbolize but is an authentic condition of entropy, a spiritual and existential experience of …